Roof and gable construction for toy buildings



Aug. 2, 1938. N. I. PAULSON ROOF AND GABLE CONSTRUCTION FOR TOY BUILDINGS Filed April 5, 1937 Patented Aug. 2, 1938 V PATENT OFFICE ROOF AND GABLE CONSTRUCTION FOR TOY BUILDINGS [Nils I. Paulson, Chicago, Ill., assignor to Halsam Products Company, Chicago, 111., a corporation of Illinois Application April 5, 1937, Serial No. 135,053

6 Claims.

My invention relates to roof andgable constructions for toy buildings and has for its object the provision of a new and improved form and arrangement'of parts making up sucha construction, whereby the parts may be very readily and easily brought together into normal assembled form and again as'readily taken apart ready for a new building operation, whereby the parts shall have such interfitting relation to each other as to give the structure'a very realistic appearance in close resemblance of a full-sized log house.

It is another object of my invention to improve constructions of this type in sundry details hereinafter pointed out. The preferred means by which I have accomplished my several objects are illustrated in the accompanying drawing and are hereinafter specifically described.

Thatwhich I believe to be new and desire to cover by Letters Patent is set forth in the claims.

In the drawing- Fig. 1 is an end face View of the upper portion of a toy building illustrating my preferred form of gable and roof construction;

Fig. 2 is a side face view of one of the log members making up a part of the gable as shown in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a vertical cross sectional View taken at line 3--3 of Fig. 1.

Referring now to the several figures of the drawing, in which corresponding parts are indicated by the same reference characters, Ill indicates the end logs of a building construction, only one of which is shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing, such end logs having notched engagement with side logs ll arranged in cross relation thereto,

' the logs l and II providing a rectangular enclosure forming the body of a toy building as will be readily understood.

Upon the'topmost end log Ill at each end of the building, I have provided a series of gable logs l2, I3, [4 and I5 of successively shorter length as compared with each other. As is shown by reference to the end log l3 as illustrated in Fig. 2, each of the logs l2 and I3 is provided with a beveled face It at each end thereof and is provided further with notches ll across its bottom face at each end and notches I8 thereacross at its top face. The log M, as shown in Fig. 1, is similar in general to the logs l2 and I3 in that it is provided with the beveled end faces l6 and with two bottom notches l! but is different from said logs in that it is provided with only a single notch l8 across its top face. The log IS in turn is provided with only a single notch l1 across its bottom face and is unnotched at its top face.

As is clearly shown in Fig. l, the several gable logs are held in centered position longitudinally with respect to each other by means of short log members l9 inserted in oppositely disposed notches I! and IS in the adjacent gable logs, the

logs being of such relative length with respect to each other that the successive beveled end faces it are downwardly offset with respect to each other from the highest log l5 to the lowest log l2.

In the outer end portions of the lowest gable log H2 at each end of the building, I have provided obliquely disposed pins 20 which are removably mounted in suitable sockets in the log. Upon such pins 20 at opposite sides of the building, I have mounted roofing boards 2! so as to be supported by the logs l2 and said pins. As is clearly shown in Fig. 1, each of the roofing boards 2| is provided with a longitudinally extending groove 22 along each edge thereof, the width of the groove corresponding substantially to one-third of the thickness of the board. Successive roofing boards 23, 24 and 25, each likewise provided with grooves 22 in its edges, are mounted in position at each side of the building, each board having a tongue and groove engagement with the next lower board. The several roofing boards are made of such width with respect to the size of the beveled ends of the gable logs as to have the desired interfitting relationship as shown in Fig. 1 for providing a complete enclosure for the top of the body of the building, except for a narrow space at the peak of the roof. At this point, I have provided a ridge pole 26 having ribs 21 on its opposite side faces adapted to fit in the grooves 22 of the topmost boards 25 so as to complete the enclosure and to provide a rugged structure which can be very quickly and easily assembled and very quickly and easily taken apart as desired. Upon the ridge of the roof, I have provided a chimney block 28.

I have found in practice that my improved arrangement of blocks is very effective for building purposes, the building being very strong and rugged when completed and the arrangement being such as to be very attractive to a child for building purposes. It is to be understood that I prefer the form of arrangement just as shown in my drawing but that my invention is not to be limited thereto except so far as the claims may be so limited, it being understood that changes might well be made in the form and arrangement of parts without departing from my invention.

I claim:-

1. In a toy building construction, the combination of a series of log members having similarly beveled end faces extending downwardly and outwardly with the obliquely disposed end face of each log at each end offset downwardly with respect to the obliquely disposed end face of the next higher log.

2. In a toy building construction, the combination of two gable constructions at opposite ends of a building each comprising a series of log members having similarly beveled end faces extending downwardly and outwardly with the obliquely disposed end face of each log at each end offset downwardly with respect to the obliquely disposed end face of the next higher log, and roofing" boards mounted on the obliquely disposed end portions of said logs for'enclosing the space between said gable constructions. I

3. In a toy building construction, the combina tion of two gable constructions at opposite ends of a building each comprising a series of log members having similarly beveled end faces extending downwardly and outwardly with theobliquely d'sposed end face of each log at each end offset do wardly with respect to the obliquely disposed 35 end face of the next higher log, a roofing board secured on the obliquely disposed end portions offthe bottom logs of said gable constructions, and other roofing boards on the obliquely disposed end portions of the remaining logs and supported 0 from said first named board by engagement of the successive boards with each other along their edges.

A; In a toy building construction, the combination of two gable constructions at opposite ends of a building each comprising a series of log members having similarly beveled end faces extending downwardly and outwardly with the obliquely disposed end face of each log at each end offset groove engagement with each other along their edges arranged in position conforming with the offset relation of said obliquely disposed end faces of the logs.

5. In a toy building construction, the combination of two gable constructions at opposite ends of a building each comprising a series of log members having similarly beveled end faces extending downwardly and outwardly with the obliquely disposed end face of each log at each end offset downwardly with respect to the obliquely disposed end face of the next higher log, and roofing boards mounted on the obliquely disposed end portions of said logs and each provided at each edge with a groove of a widthlcorresponding-substantially to one-third of the thickness of the board whereby the boards have tongue and groove engagement with each other along their edges.

6. In a toy building construction, the combination of a series of log members rising in successive tiers one above another to form similar gable constructions at opposite ends of the building and having similarly beveled end faces slanting downwardly and'outwardly, means adapted by engage- 

